I still remember sitting at my kitchen table at 5 a.m. I stared at a blinking cursor on a blank screen. My coffee was getting cold, and my cat was judging me. I had a burning idea for a novel, but I didn’t know where to start. That was six years ago. Since then, I’ve […]
I spent three years on my first novel. I never finished it. The story was stuck in a folder, 47,000 words long, going nowhere. I blamed writer’s block and my schedule, but the real issue was I had no plan. Then I found James Thayer’s writing podcast. He showed how to write with before-and-after examples. […]
